Word: bested
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...more than 50 years, a regular Pap test has been a woman's best defense against cervical cancer. By taking tissue samples from the cervix--the "neck," or outer opening, of the uterus--a doctor can usually tell that something is wrong before the cancer has a chance to fully develop or spread. Now researchers are eyeing a new gene-based test that they believe is better than the Pap test at identifying precancerous and malignant changes in the cervix--and could even replace it. But don't cancel your next gynecologic exam just yet. A lot more work needs...
...which Muniz talks to the viewers (now there's something you don't see every night), is its biggest liability. But the show's bratty good nature more than makes up for it. Visually antic and full of belly laughs (a rarity this season), Malcolm is cartoonish in the best sense of the word, yet it doesn't deny any of its characters humanity, even (rarer still) the parents. It's now rote to knock TV and real-life families as morally bankrupt, and when shown to the press last year, the pilot was wrongly lumped with the fall...
Used-up pugs Vince (Woody Harrelson) and Caesar (Antonio Banderas) are last-minute replacements on the undercard for a Las Vegas championship fight. They're best buddies, so, good payday or not, beating up on each other is a bummer. Still, Grace (Lolita Davidovich), whom they both love, is driving them from L.A. She's flaky fun, but the movie never achieves more than feckless amiability. Shelton (Bull Durham) has done better with athletic lowlifes and doubtless will again...
...TIME. Amazon.com is the best shopping website, bar none. After ordering from a toy company online on Dec. 2, thinking that was plenty of time to ship my items, I found out on Dec. 21 that not only were my items not going to arrive for Christmas, but that my order had been canceled. I immediately went to Amazon.com and guess what? I got the same items on Dec. 22, gift wrapped and ready to put under the tree. Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus, and his name is Jeff Bezos. ELAINE FLORES Stamford, Conn...
...soon as I walked into the store I found it extremely difficult not to tell everybody that I, and not my nonwriter friend, had penned the best ice cream name the store would ever have. I saw the store's other sad, poorly written flavors, like Peanut Butter in My Chocolate and Cassie's Blue Cotton Candy with Sprinkles and the particularly lazy Vanilla. I found myself speaking in a loud, pastoral voice, saying, "My friend is amazingly talented, huh? Someone who perhaps should quit his day job and write a serious piece of literary fiction. He is what...